WMP won't play visuals on any avi's - W98SE and WMP ver 9
- From: fastermx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (faster)
- Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 03:30:07 -0500
I just reformatted C: and did a virgin install of everything.
Windows Media Player ver. 9 won't play .avi files properly. It tells
me there is an error in downloading a codec, and that a codec called
CLJR is needed to play the file. When I play an .avi file in WMP, I
get sound and no visual. ALL file types which can be played with WMP
have been selected. No other player can play a file listed in "File
Types" with WMP.
Somebody please tell me how WMP could have a file type which is one of
its very own default files, but which it requires an external download
to function? And if it does that anyway, Microsoft should include
that codec download in its updates, or make it extremely easy to get,
at a URL which is not going to go poof sometime later.
I have Win98SE, and all permissions in Zone Alarm Pro are properly
given. WMP still can't download the codec. Because it appears not
to exist on the Internet - other people, I've learned, are also
searching for it. In vain. I've learned the codec is made by Cirrus
Logic, and is found in its "AccuPak" program. That can't be found for
download and install anywhere. All I can find are descriptions of it
for techies.
The download ffdshow20041012sse.exe might help, and is recommended for
WMP, but there are no instructions, after installing, about how to use
it. I tried to include it as a plugin with WMP, but the player could
not initialize the makeAVIS.exe - no explanation of why or how to fix
it. None of the .dll's would install as a plugin either. I have it,
but can't get WMP to accept it as a plugin, and there are no
instructions, anywhere, as to how this should properly be done. At
least with this program, I might be able to convert my .avi files to
something which the faulty WMP will play. I shouldn't have to
convert a file to something else, just to get WMP to play its OWN
file type, however.
Worse still is that the codec required is virtually impossible to find
on the Web. Was the "error downloading" this file due to the fact
that it can't be found? Or did it mean there was a problem, after
finding the file, in downloading it to my system?
I learned of this by trying to play some .avi files I already had on
my system. They are not files I am trying to play on the Internet,
where things like popup blockers and firewalls can interfere. These
are files I already had on my PC, and which will not play the visual
part on my WMP. Nor are they invalid .avi's. I've already checked
their validity with a program called GSpot.
While searching, I have downloaded and installed "Codec Pack," "Codec
Pack All in One," the LAME MP3 ACM Codec, and ffdshow. To no avail.
GSpot tells me it will crash trying to load a list of all my codecs -
then it crashes. It does state, first, that the crash would possibly
relate to the LAME MP3 codec. After installing the codec, Gspot still
crashes.
The very LEAST Microsoft can do is provide easy access, in its update
section, to anyone with WMP ver. 9 who needs this codec. We users
can't find it, but I'm sure Microsoft can find it and also make it
easy for us users to download and install it automatically.
Please explain to me how this can happen. I've just spent a whole
night without sleep trying to find this CLJR codec, without success.
Holly B.
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